The world of computer hardware is always evolving, and this year promises to be no exception. With new technologies emerging all the time, it's exciting to think about what 2022 will bring for enthusiasts and gamers alike.

One area where we can expect significant advancements is in graphics processing units (GPUs). The latest models from top manufacturers such as NVIDIA and AMD are being pushed to their limits with increasingly complex games and applications. One notable development is the advent of DLSS, or Deep Learning Super Sampling. This technology uses AI to improve image quality and increase frame rates in games that support it. It's a game-changer for enthusiasts who want to experience stunning visuals without sacrificing performance.

Another area where we're seeing significant improvements is in cooling systems. The importance of efficient cooling can't be overstated, especially as GPUs continue to generate more heat with each new generation. The MSI card in question features an impressive cooler that outperforms some of our testing from the Strix series. While it's not perfect, any 30-series Ti or 80-series model that can be found at a reasonable price will likely meet most users' needs.

When it comes to building a PC, there are many components to consider. One crucial element is the power supply unit (PSU), which provides energy to all other parts of the system. MSI has recently entered the market with its own line of PSUs, and we're excited to put this particular model through its paces.

The PSU in question is the MSA850GF, an 850W unit that boasts 80 Plus Gold certification. This means it's not only efficient but also reliable, with a 10-year warranty to back it up. One of the standout features of this PSU is its fully modular design, which allows users to easily remove any cables they don't need. This keeps cable management simple and reduces clutter in the system.

To showcase our build, we'll be using MSI's all-MSI theme, with the 3070 Ti and MSA850GF working together to create a beautiful display of RGB lights and fans. The Corsair IQ RGB light kit will add an extra layer of visual flair to the case, while the MSI fan will provide a smooth, quiet operation.

Now that we've seen how great our system looks when it's all powered up, it's time to put it through its paces with some gaming performance tests. We'll be using a range of titles, including Battlefield 2042, Call of Duty: Vanguard, Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Apex Legends, and Fortnite.

In the first test, we're looking at Battlefield 2042 on medium settings at 1440p. The results are impressive, with more than 90 frames per second on average – a really strong result for this title. We'll also be using NVIDIA Frame View and MSI Afterburners River Tuner to ensure maximum fairness in our testing.

Next up is Call of Duty: Vanguard, tested at 4k high settings with DLSS enabled. The results are equally impressive, with an average of over 105 frames per second – a solid result that's well ahead of the competition.

Forza Horizon 5 was another title we put through its paces, this time at 4k ultra settings. We achieved more than 80 frames per second in the game's built-in benchmarking mode, with a 99 percentile result just 11 frames per second behind – impressive stuff indeed.

Moving on to Halo Infinite, we tested it out at 1440p medium settings and managed to achieve 103 frames per second – a great result that showcases the card's capabilities. Finally, we also ran some tests in Apex Legends and Fortnite, with results of 85 frames per second and 284 frames per second respectively. It's clear that this 3070 Ti is not being bottlenecked by the CPU, especially at lower resolutions.

That's all for today's video – if you enjoyed it be sure to like, subscribe, and share your feedback. We'll see you in the next one!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat is up guys welcome back to another geeker video in this video i'm going to be building an awesome gaming pc build for the end of 2021 and of course 2022. this build is going to be perfect for some of the new aaa titles out including forza horizon 5 battlefield 2042 and of course call of duty vanguard with a powerful 12th gen intel processor and rtx 3000 series gpu in this video i'll be running you through all the components and putting the system together as we go along before booting it up to see how good it looks later and of course just how well it performs something that's really really important when you're dropping this much dosh on a gaming pc let's do this let's kick things off by taking a look at the motherboard now in a sense the motherboard is the most important component of your build it's what connects everything else together and is best seen as the beating heart or a skeleton of your gaming pc this board here is an msi unifi board with loads of really really cool metal shielding at the back and they're avoid collision standoff holes never seen that before this is a neutral all black motherboard that looks super stealthy and super awesome with gen 5 pcie support room for the latest ddr5 memory and stacks of overclocking performance this is a really really future-proof motherboard with key features like a qled debug display and onboard power and reset buttons that make it actually really really good for debugging your system and getting started without any issues into the motherboard i'll be installing our processor intel's core i9 12900k now i realize that a lot of youtubers like me get carried away and pick often a ryzen 9 or an i9 for the sake of it but the new intel chips are so good that i just couldn't help myself with what intel core their efficiency and their performance caused these cpus provide a step change in performance and no offense to ryzen absolutely destroy it hands down i'm excited to see what amd's response will be to 12th gen but for now these are most definitely the best cpus on the market the new socket design as well from intel is a good improvement actually over the last one you push down the top half then pop down at the bottom half and it secures nice and easily i'll be coupling our cpu up with 32 gigabytes of ram from corsair one of the actual disadvantages of the new intel processors is ddr5 memory now the new ram standard is great and it paves the way for more memory bandwidth much higher speeds but at the moment it is a little bit expensive corsair though i've got some pretty good options and this vengeance kit is one of the better value ddr5 sets available on the market much like ddr4 we're just going to install in alternating slots slots 2 and slots 4 for this build nothing really has changed there something that is a bit unique for this build though is our m.2 ssd drive msi have entered the market of cases of power supplies and now of ssds 2 and their spatium m480 is genuinely one of the fastest gen 4 drives out there nothing really apart from seagate's fire cuda 530 comes close with a drive that provides seven gigabytes a second read and write a lot of gen 4 drives provide the read but they let themselves down when it comes to the write speeds not msi in order to go ahead and remove the m.2 drive you need to first take off this m.2 slot cover now gen 5 support is a massive bonus when it comes to z690 motherboards like this one from msi we aren't going to actually put the heatsink back on as our spatium m480 includes one as standard to install the ssd it should be a simple case of sliding it in at a 45 degree angle and pushing it down you'll then find this little plastic retention bracket which should in theory slot over the top of the drive but unfortunately this drive with all of its extra m.2 shielding that we've added with the included heatsink means it just doesn't quite fit so i need to go back to the drawing board and potentially screw this in instead it's time for take two i've gone ahead and picked up a screw i'm going the traditional route and i'm gonna see if this works a little bit better so let's just slide the drive in push it down magnetic tip as well so hopefully it shouldn't fall off and then oh yes marvelous sometimes the old ways that's all the best ways of doing things at least in my humble opinion with that done i think we can go ahead and move our motherboard into the case there's not really any other components we can deal with before doing so for the case in this build i've selected a chassis from msi when i say they've gone into so many different sectors making so many different components that range true and their v-locks 100p and 100r are prime examples of this i really really like this case though it's strong on airflow strong on rgb and actually pretty strong on price point coming in at less than what i'd expected for a chassis like this one in order to install the motherboard into the case you want to remove not only the front glass side panel but also at the metal side panel on the other side of your case removing as many side panels as possible is a great rule of thumb and makes the whole process just a lot easier really for our build today i'm gonna go ahead and lay the case down flat on our table as installing the motherboard this way is going to be a lot easier aesthetically i think this motherboard as well matches really really nicely with the case it gives us a neutral all black design with obviously a hint of gold from our m.2 drive spinning the case around will make this next stage of the process super easy uh we want to slide the motherboard in and then line our i o shield on the motherboard that's all these ports and connections up with our rectangular cutout on the case drop it over those standoffs a little something like this and then we can go ahead and secure the screws in place we've got three screws across the top three along the middle and three along the bottom once you've done that your motherboard's installed and we can move on to the cpu cooler this right here is the corsair h-150i elite a 360mm unit that's not only compatible with the new chips as far as mounting hardware goes but also capable of keeping them nice and cool now this is going to work really really well for our system today the 360 millimeter radiator provides plenty of cooling capacity for these chips which do undoubtedly run a little bit hotter a lot of drama has been made about the new intel cpus but take a look at some of the gameplay footage we've gathered on your screen now and compare the temperatures in the top left corner to some of the ludicrous results posted by other media yes if the cpu is pinned at 100 for half an hour it does get very toasty but for normal gaming applications even with a 3070 ti it's not actually all that bad as if there weren't enough selling points for this cooler it's also got a screen on it and knowing corsair they implement these things so incredibly well in corsair iq i'm going to install the radiator into the front of the case alongside our lovely included rgb fans first and then we'll come back to the water block it installs nice and easily those three 120mm units providing plenty of airflow not only through the radiator but also for the rest of the system to install the water block itself you want to take the following mounting hardware the first is this back plate here it's black with these silver screws you'll then also find yourself having a male to male screw thread on top that is this thing right here and then you'll also find yourself with a thumb screw the back plate needs to go through the rear of the motherboard through the four holes will circle now with the male to male screws going on top the cooler on top of that and then thumb screws to finish everything off and fasten it into place it sounds a lot more complicated than it is but hopefully the footage will pop on your screen now makes the whole process a little bit more bearable with the cooler in we can then finally move on to the gpu now this right here is the msi supremex rtx 3070 ti now the new gpus from nvidia the 3000 series have seen huge stock and availability issues and it's something that we discussed in a recent video which you can check out now to be clear i'm not suggesting that anyone watching can find this card for anywhere near msrp though up-to-date pricing and availability for all other components can be found at the affiliate links in the description the 37 ti and by extension 3080 3070 are all fantastic gpus and hopefully as silicon shortages ease as we head into 2022 more people will be able to buy them dlss is fantastic ray tracing is also pretty good and straight rasterization as far as gaming at 1440p and 4k is phenomenal but you guys already knew that this card from msi is a really fantastic cooler it beats out the strix from some of our testing which is really impressive but truth be told any 30 70 70 ti 80 80 ti that you can actually find for a price you're happy with is what i'd go for in this build i went for msi's it fits in with the all msi theme and i think personally it will look fantastic now to install this we need to remove a couple of the pcie covers that's these metal brackets at the back of the case hover your gpu over i've just realized how tight that is it literally fits by millimeters the top pci slot and then that will show you which of the lanes need removing first we need to take off the second and third which we can do with these two screws just here remove those slot your gpu in and then we'll have to give it power with the final component of our build today this our power supply choice today msi have entered the market of psus as well surprisingly and this a850 gf is an awesome choice it's 850 watts 80 plus gold and it has a 10 year warranty as much as it fits with the theme of this build i've not just gone all msi for the sake of it this has got some great credentials and comes in at a fantastic price point you also get an included bag of fully modular cables meaning you only plug in the power supply cables you actually need this keeps cable management and cable clutter to a minimum and makes things nice and easy this video won't be a detailed cables and wiring guide though we have got one coming for 2022 very soon so keep your eyes peeled for that in the meantime i'm going to go ahead and get our system all powered up juiced and ready to go and then we can boot it up to test out the gaming performance before that though enjoy some lovely visuals of this pc all powered up with of course our corsair iq rgb and msi's rgb fan at the rear to see just how good our chassis looks i'll see you in a second but first roll that montage awesome stuff now that we've seen how good the system looks when it's all powered up it's time to test out the performance and make sure this machine stacks up against the competition on your screen now is a summary a snapshot view of all the different games that we tested out on this pc and you can find full unedited benchmark runs of all titles at the playlist link in the description below and the card section now i'll be taking a closer look though titled by title kicking off with the brand new battlefield 2042 here at 1440p medium settings we achieved more than 90 frames per second on average which really is very strong for this title all of our frame rate data was tested using nvidia frame view and msi afterburners river tuner for maximum fairness moving on to call of duty vanguard and here we test it out at 4k high settings with dlss enabled 105 frames per second on average was a really solid result with 91 and 79 for the 90 and 99 percentiles forza horizon 5 also worked well at 4k ultra settings we got more than 80 frames per second when testing in the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode with a 99 percentile result that was just 11 frames per second behind impressive stuff moving on to halo infinite another brand new title on the list today we tested out at 1440p medium settings here we managed to achieve 103 frames per second and the game visually looked incredible great job on the new halo guys moving on to apex legends next up racking through them nice and quickly today here we test it out at 4k high settings to see what would happen if we push the 37 tti supreme to its limits here we managed to get 85 frames per second on average a result i was personally super happy with finally to wrap things up we also tested out a bit of fortnite at 1080p low competitive settings here we got 284 frames per second on average once again really really impressive stuff and it's great to see the 3070 ti is not being bottlenecked by the cpu especially at those lower resolutions with that though that pretty much wraps it up for this video if you enjoyed it make sure to get subscribed drop a like rating as well if you'd like to see more from us and give us those good algorithm points thanks a lot for tuning in though and as always we'll see you in the next one\n"